BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has commissioned Bafta award winner James Corden to make a new sketch show which he has co-written with his Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne.

The six part comedy series, which has the working title Horne and Corden Have Come, is being made by independent producer Tiger Aspect and will be directed by Kathy Burke.

According to the BBC the new series will be "designed as a traditional comedy entertainment show in the style of Morecambe and Wise" and will see the duo perform as themselves in front of a studio audience.

"Their intention is to make it like a traditional comedy entertainment show," said Tiger Aspect's head of comedy, Sophie Clarke-Jervoise.

"In Gavin & Stacey, Mat and James have proved themselves to be Britain's best new comedy partnership and we're very much looking forward to presenting their brilliant new characters on BBC3."

Corden and Horne will trial their material in front of audiences in a tour starting next week and may bring in other scriptwriters, according to the BBC.

The series will be executive produced by Clarke-Jervoise and her Tiger Aspect colleague Geoffrey Perkins and is planned for broadcast in early 2009.

This commission completes a good week for Corden, who won the best comedy performer Bafta for Gavin & Stacey, the comedy he co-writes and co-stars in, and which also won the Sky+ audience award at Sunday's ceremony.

A BBC spokeswoman said today that no decision had been made on whether a third series of Gavin & Stacey would be commissioned.

At the Baftas, Corden's co-writer Ruth Jones confirmed that they were currently working on a Christmas special of the show but added: "We never intended to write a second series let alone a third. We don't want it to become predictable. We will see how the Christmas special goes and take it from there."

Corden also revealed at the Baftas: "We will write one if we can make it better. We have to be true to ourselves."

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